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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
An insult to tolkien
This show is just ridiculous. One billion dollar for this incoherent boring mess is almost cynical. I really hope that Hollywood will soon stop lecturing people with their political crap and start make decent movies again. Dune by Danny Villeneuve was cool though :D.
It is ironic, that Tolkien described the show before it was made:
"Since he, Melkor had no love even for the things that he had himself made, he came at length to reck not at all how things had come into being, considering neither their natures nor their purposes. Thus he desired only to possess things, to dominate them, denying to all minds any freedom outside his own will, and to other creatures any value save as they served his own plans. Thus it was seen in Arda that the things made or designed by Melcor were never "new" (though at first he strove to make them so) but were imitations or mockeries of works of others."
Alien (1979)
Ahead of its time
1979... crazy. Looks better than modern movies. Great artwork the alien. The original Alien was something special. Ridley Scott was a master of suspense in that film, and it is also very uncomfortable in 2022. The crew facing this creature alone in space is a simple but very effective film. I love the fact that Ripley is just another character in the film and that she is forced to play the lead role when people are killed. Not heroin. Heroine, full stop. The fact that Ellen Ripley is a woman doesn't affect her level of badassery at all, although it does affect her character in ways that make her far more interesting than any other cinematic hero. She's complicated, she's real, and I'm absolutely certain that the Alien films wouldn't have become classics without her.
In particular compared to modern movies this is a great female lead. Overall just a great classic.